"A highly influential coronavirus antibody study was funded in part by David Neeleman.. a vocal proponent of the idea that the pandemic isn’t deadly enough to justify continued lockdowns. That’s according to a complaint from an anonymous whistleblower"
I'll have to go further into these people for those still at the back of the class
"Asked if Neeleman donated to the study, Ioannidis said he was “not personally aware” he did. “David Neeleman has a particular perspective and some ideas and some thoughts,” he told BuzzFeed News. “I don’t know exactly who were the people who funded the study eventually."..
"But according to Neeleman, the authors did know he’d given money to fund the study. Neeleman confirmed that he made a $5,000 donation to Stanford to be given to these researchers and that he was in communication with them while they were conducting their research."
David G. Neeleman is a Brazilian-American businessman and entrepreneur. He has founded five commercial airlines: Morris Air, WestJet, JetBlue Airways, Azul Brazilian Airlines, and Breeze Airways
"Billionaire investor George Soros and David Neeleman, two men who helped launch No. 8 U.S. airline JetBlue Airways Corp. JBLU.O, are selling portions of their holdings in the company"
"The new airline will be funded by a venture capital fund of $130m. As well as Mr Soros' Private Equity Partners Fund, it will be backed by Chase Capital Partners and Weston Presideo ."
Delancey Real Estate Asset Management Limited is a British property development company that has wholly owned subsidiaries such as DV4 based in offshore jurisdictions. The billionaire George Soros invested in the company in 1998. The company appears in the Panama papers.
"The billionaire George Soros is an investor in British Land and Delancey. In 1994, G Soros Realty Investors, acquired £1.34 million British Land shares at 298p from a Quantum Fund holding. ..."..
"An early deal for Soros and Ritblat was for the Broadgate complex in the City of London in 1994 .. In 2005, Soros embarked on a £2bn London property spree through his investments Delancey which was selling off commercial real estate and
"also sold its stake in Mapeley, the off-shore company that owned and managed Inland Revenue offices.."..
"The National Audit Office .. were highly critical of the IR's decision to sell over 600 buildings to a Bermuda-based company & misleading the public. Revenue chairman Sir Nicholas Montagu later admitted his organisation wrongly announced the properties were sold to a UK firm"
"There was further public concern in 2020 when a £6.5m Government payment was made to a company in a tax haven".."..
"In 2010, the Crown Estate sold the Freehold and buildings of Royal Mint Court to DV4, wholly owned subsidiary of Delancey-based offshore inn the BVI. This was an off market sale that was kept confidential &resulted in serious allegations being made when
official documents were published in 2018 following a Freedom of Information request.".."..
"In May 2015, Minerva, the real estate investment and development group taken private by funds owned by Ares Management and Delancey, revealed it had sold the Walbrook Building in the City of London to Taiwan-based Cathay Life for a fee of £575 million.."..
Minerva plc is a London-based British developer &property company co-founded by Sir David Garrard & Andrew Rosenfeld , head of the U.K. National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children's "Full Stop" campaign #NSPCC
Wife: Juliet Soskice, a "close friend" of Ed Miliband
"In 2015, Delancey formed a joint venture w/ LRC Group in a project to redevelop the Royal Mint Court office..The deal followed lengthy negotiations after LRC acquired a loan secured on the site's leasehold in 2014. Delancey's DV4 fund had owned the freehold interest since 2010"
LRC Group founder Yehuda Barashi is a Conference of European Rabbis Board of Patrons Member rabbiscer.org/who-we-are/our…
"In May 2012, Delancey advised Brazilian business magnate Moise Safra on his £500 million purchase of an office building in London's financial district from the consortium, One Plantation Place Unit Trust"..
"In 2011, Delancey and Qatari-owned Qatar Diar acquired 1,400 apartments in the Olympic Village area near the venue of the London 2012 Olympics for a fee of £557 million. The acquisition attracted some controversy as it occurred during the time of the economic crisis, with
the property market at a low point...the properties were sold to Delancey and Qatar Diar before the games had even started."
That's enough now
But I wonder, who owns Stanford? 🤔
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The Technological Republic : Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the West is a 2025 book co-authored by Alexander C. Karp, the co-founder and CEO of Palantir Technologies, and Nicholas W. Zamiska, Palantir's head of corporate affairs and legal counsel to the CEO.
Grok : " Palantir is a core partner in the precursor to Genesis—the National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource (NAIRR)—which Genesis explicitly builds upon. This involves Palantir's Foundry and AIP platforms for secure data integration across federal datasets..
Mappin : "Princess Gloria Von Thurn und Taxis heard about the London event, in Germany and immediately invited Kirk and Owens to her Palace at Regensburg ..
Mappin : " His Grace the Duke of Marlborough, James Marlbourough invited them both to visit him at Blenheim Palace and later participated in TPUK fundraising events in London...🤔
Yesterday , Grok could find no public records on the mysterious Richard A. Rothschild ..
Today, it gave me an address, listed with some of his patents ..
According to Grok, "no evidence of any professional, personal, legal, artistic, or activist connection emerges between Paolo Cirio and these individuals [ Richard A. Rothschild and/or Robin S. Slomkowski ]".
Grok : Stuart Pivar inherited a substantial fortune from the family plastics business .., which funded his lifelong art collecting, the founding of the New York Academy of Art (with Andy Warhol in 1979), and his later pursuits in theoretical biology (Lifecode).
" Stuart Pivar was the primary founder and financial backer of the New York Academy of Art , and Andy Warhol was his high-profile co-founder and public face..
Key Facts About the Founding :
Idea and money: Pivar , flush with cash from selling his family’s plastics business, wanted to create a graduate school that would bring back rigorous classical training in drawing, painting, and sculpture ..
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which explores how to simulate or extend synesthetic-like experiences via technology to enhance human perception beyond natural sensory limits,eg. interfacing computers with multisensory data for broader environmental awareness" media.mit.edu/projects/digit…
MIT's involvement extends to publishing foundational and ongoing scholarship on synesthesia through the MIT Press, including Richard E. Cytowic's 2018 primer Synesthesia (with a 2025 edition highlighting its spectrum-like nature across brain pathways) thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/a-brief-200-ye…